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author | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-05-11 17:28:01 +0000 |
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committer | bmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-05-11 17:28:01 +0000 |
commit | eab64faef4480942a55b64eee89f9c8ba1a5ab0b (patch) | |
tree | 65c4a072ca0ebf516e9def9a05e0742dd90de7e9 /release | |
parent | e7542a26ed191b4c2b5783c85324096adc4d1fb5 (diff) | |
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New release notes: new crashdump infrastructure, cdcontrol(1) speed,
fsdb(8) blocks (+MFC), who(1) -H/-T/-m/-u/-q, xargs(1) -L, general
note on SuSv3/POSIX.1 conformance.
Modified release notes: The system awk is now BWK awk (noted in three
places), uudecode(1)/uuencode(1) -o/-m (+MFC), xargs(1) -I/-J.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 59 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 59 |
2 files changed, 90 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index d35a70a..3a78284 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -327,6 +327,12 @@ and IDE disks, where large memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete. &merged;</para> + <para>The kernel crashdump infrastructure has been revised, to + support new platforms and in general clean up the logic in the + code. One implication of this change is that the on-disk format + for kernel dumps has changed, and is now + byte-order-agnostic.</para> + <para>Extremely large swap areas (>67 GB) no longer panic the system.</para> @@ -1800,10 +1806,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>&man.atacontrol.8; has been added to control various aspects of the &man.ata.4; driver. &merged;</para> - <para arch="sparc64">The system &man.awk.1; refers to - <application>BWK awk</application> on the &arch; platform. It - remains <application>GNU awk</application> on other - platforms.</para> + <para>The system &man.awk.1; now refers to + <application>BWK awk</application>. <application>GNU + awk</application> is now available as &man.gawk.1;.</para> <para arch="i386">&man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager installation and configuration utility, has been @@ -1846,6 +1851,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> specified number of tracks while playing an audio CD. &merged;</para> + <para>On ATAPI CDROM drives, &man.cdcontrol.1; now supports a + <literal>speed</literal> command to set the maximum speed to be + used by the drive.</para> + <para>&man.chflags.1; has moved from <filename>/usr/bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename>.</para> @@ -2016,6 +2025,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> break at byte positions and a <option>-s</option> to break at word boundaries.</para> + <para>&man.fsdb.8; now supports a <literal>blocks</literal> + command to list the blocks allocated by a particular + inode. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para> @@ -2896,8 +2909,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>The &man.usbhidctl.1; utility has been added to manipulate USB Human Interface Devices. &merged;</para> - <para>&man.uudecode.1; now accepts a <option>-o</option> option to - set its output file.</para> + <para>&man.uuencode.1; and &man.uudecode.1; now accept a <option>-o</option> option to + set their output files. They can also do base64 encoding and + decoding when given the <option>-m</option> flag. &merged;</para> <para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now accepts a <option>-g</option> parameter to select custom text geometry in the @@ -2931,6 +2945,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>&man.which.1; is now a C program, rather than a Perl script.</para> + <para>&man.who.1; now has a number of new options: + <option>-H</option> shows column headings; <option>-T</option> + shows &man.mesg.1; state; <option>-m</option> is an equivalent + to <option>am i</option>; <option>-u</option> shows idle time; + <option>-q</option> to list names in columns.</para> + <para>&man.whois.1; now directs queries for IP addresses to ARIN. If a query to ARIN references APNIC or RIPE, the appropriate server will also be queried, provided that the @@ -2940,11 +2960,17 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> specify a country code to help direct queries towards a particular whois server. &merged;</para> - <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-J</option> + <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-I</option> <replaceable>replstr</replaceable> option that allows the user to tell &man.xargs.1; to insert the data read from standard - input at a specific point in the command line arguments rather - than at the end. &merged;</para> + input at specific points in the command line arguments rather + than at the end. (A &os;-specific <option>-J</option> option is + similar, but is now deprecated in favor of the more portable + <option>-I</option> option.)</para> + + <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-L</option> option to + force its utility argument to be called after some number of + lines.</para> <para>The compiler chain now uses the FSF-supplied C/C++ runtime initialization code. This change brings about better @@ -2979,6 +3005,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> improved, both in terms of their formatting markup and in their content. &merged;</para> + <para>A number of utilities and libraries were enhanced to improve + their conformance with the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3) and + IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (<quote>POSIX.1</quote>). Specific + features added have been listed in the release notes for each + utility. The standards conformance of each utility or library + function is generally listed in its manual page.</para> + <sect3> <title>Contributed Software</title> @@ -2988,8 +3021,8 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>A 10 February 2002 snapshot of <application>awk</application> from Bell Labs (variously known as <quote>BWK awk</quote> or <quote>The One True AWK</quote>) has been imported. It is available as - <command>awk</command> on the sparc64 architecture, and - <command>nawk</command> on other architectures.</para> + <command>awk</command> or + <command>nawk</command>.</para> <para><application>bc</application> has been updated from 1.04 to 1.06. &merged;</para> @@ -3038,9 +3071,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> 3.113. &merged;</para> <para><application>GNU awk</application> has been updated to - 3.1.0. It is available as <command>gawk</command> on the - sparc64 architecture, and as <command>awk</command> on other - architectures.</para> + 3.1.0. It is now available as <command>gawk</command>.</para> <para><application>gperf</application> has been updated to 2.7.2.</para> diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index d35a70a..3a78284 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -327,6 +327,12 @@ and IDE disks, where large memory dumps could take up to an hour to complete. &merged;</para> + <para>The kernel crashdump infrastructure has been revised, to + support new platforms and in general clean up the logic in the + code. One implication of this change is that the on-disk format + for kernel dumps has changed, and is now + byte-order-agnostic.</para> + <para>Extremely large swap areas (>67 GB) no longer panic the system.</para> @@ -1800,10 +1806,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>&man.atacontrol.8; has been added to control various aspects of the &man.ata.4; driver. &merged;</para> - <para arch="sparc64">The system &man.awk.1; refers to - <application>BWK awk</application> on the &arch; platform. It - remains <application>GNU awk</application> on other - platforms.</para> + <para>The system &man.awk.1; now refers to + <application>BWK awk</application>. <application>GNU + awk</application> is now available as &man.gawk.1;.</para> <para arch="i386">&man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager installation and configuration utility, has been @@ -1846,6 +1851,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> specified number of tracks while playing an audio CD. &merged;</para> + <para>On ATAPI CDROM drives, &man.cdcontrol.1; now supports a + <literal>speed</literal> command to set the maximum speed to be + used by the drive.</para> + <para>&man.chflags.1; has moved from <filename>/usr/bin</filename> to <filename>/bin</filename>.</para> @@ -2016,6 +2025,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> break at byte positions and a <option>-s</option> to break at word boundaries.</para> + <para>&man.fsdb.8; now supports a <literal>blocks</literal> + command to list the blocks allocated by a particular + inode. &merged;</para> + <para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para> @@ -2896,8 +2909,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>The &man.usbhidctl.1; utility has been added to manipulate USB Human Interface Devices. &merged;</para> - <para>&man.uudecode.1; now accepts a <option>-o</option> option to - set its output file.</para> + <para>&man.uuencode.1; and &man.uudecode.1; now accept a <option>-o</option> option to + set their output files. They can also do base64 encoding and + decoding when given the <option>-m</option> flag. &merged;</para> <para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now accepts a <option>-g</option> parameter to select custom text geometry in the @@ -2931,6 +2945,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>&man.which.1; is now a C program, rather than a Perl script.</para> + <para>&man.who.1; now has a number of new options: + <option>-H</option> shows column headings; <option>-T</option> + shows &man.mesg.1; state; <option>-m</option> is an equivalent + to <option>am i</option>; <option>-u</option> shows idle time; + <option>-q</option> to list names in columns.</para> + <para>&man.whois.1; now directs queries for IP addresses to ARIN. If a query to ARIN references APNIC or RIPE, the appropriate server will also be queried, provided that the @@ -2940,11 +2960,17 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> specify a country code to help direct queries towards a particular whois server. &merged;</para> - <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-J</option> + <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-I</option> <replaceable>replstr</replaceable> option that allows the user to tell &man.xargs.1; to insert the data read from standard - input at a specific point in the command line arguments rather - than at the end. &merged;</para> + input at specific points in the command line arguments rather + than at the end. (A &os;-specific <option>-J</option> option is + similar, but is now deprecated in favor of the more portable + <option>-I</option> option.)</para> + + <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-L</option> option to + force its utility argument to be called after some number of + lines.</para> <para>The compiler chain now uses the FSF-supplied C/C++ runtime initialization code. This change brings about better @@ -2979,6 +3005,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> improved, both in terms of their formatting markup and in their content. &merged;</para> + <para>A number of utilities and libraries were enhanced to improve + their conformance with the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3) and + IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (<quote>POSIX.1</quote>). Specific + features added have been listed in the release notes for each + utility. The standards conformance of each utility or library + function is generally listed in its manual page.</para> + <sect3> <title>Contributed Software</title> @@ -2988,8 +3021,8 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> <para>A 10 February 2002 snapshot of <application>awk</application> from Bell Labs (variously known as <quote>BWK awk</quote> or <quote>The One True AWK</quote>) has been imported. It is available as - <command>awk</command> on the sparc64 architecture, and - <command>nawk</command> on other architectures.</para> + <command>awk</command> or + <command>nawk</command>.</para> <para><application>bc</application> has been updated from 1.04 to 1.06. &merged;</para> @@ -3038,9 +3071,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting> 3.113. &merged;</para> <para><application>GNU awk</application> has been updated to - 3.1.0. It is available as <command>gawk</command> on the - sparc64 architecture, and as <command>awk</command> on other - architectures.</para> + 3.1.0. It is now available as <command>gawk</command>.</para> <para><application>gperf</application> has been updated to 2.7.2.</para> |